13 January 2014

Windows 8.1 is a disaster, Windows 8 a debacle and "tanking"

When long-time Microsoft and Windows Champion Paul Thurrott writes those words (in the headline above), you know it's bad news for Microsoft and Windows 8 --"Threshold" to be Called Windows 9, Ship in April 2015 | Windows 8 content from Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows: " .... Windows 8 is tanking harder than Microsoft is comfortable discussing in public, and the latest release, Windows 8.1, which is a substantial and free upgrade with major improvements over the original release, is in use on less than 25 million PCs at the moment. That's a disaster, and Threshold needs to strike a better balance between meeting the needs of over a billion traditional PC users while enticing users to adopt this new Windows on new types of personal computing devices. In short, it needs to be everything that Windows 8 is not. . . . To distance itself from the Windows 8 debacle, Microsoft is currently planning to drop the Windows 8 name and brand this next release as Windows 9...."

Microsoft Should Embrace Nokia's Android ProjectForbesWhen Microsoft's purchase of Nokia's Devices and Services section is ... tightly to their online services as the Nexus handsets are tied to Google's. ... find in the Chinese markets, CyanogenMod and Amazon's Kindle Fire OS, .... (already WP outsells apple in many markets and the big EU 5 will included ...